Light reading on quarantines while you are in quarantine.

Quarantine is derived from Italian words quaranta giora meaning 40 days

In the 14th century ships arriving in Venice were required to sit at anchor for 40 days before landing

Continued Outbreaks of yellow fever prompted Congress to pass federal quarantine legislation in 1878.

It wasn’t until 1944 that the Public Health Service Act clearly establishes the current quarantine system

Pic - quarantine area in Malta Italy via https://wellcomecollection.org/works/ugphkcj8?query=malta+quarantine

The list of quarantinable diseases includes cholera, diphtheria, infectious tuberculosis, plague, smallpox, yellow fever, viral hemorrhagic fevers(such as Marburg, Ebola, and Congo-Crimean), and newly added COVID-19

Marry Mallon “'Typhoid Mary' a former cook was quarantined twice from 1907-1910 and 1915-1938.

53 cases were tied directly to her

Apollo 11, Apollo 12, and Apollo 14, were all quarantined 21 days to prevent interplanetary contamination

The Walking Dead has to practice quarantine in the Prison season to combat the swine flu outbreak

On March 26, 2.6 Billion people were under some form of lockdown.

Quarantine can have negative psychological effects on those that are quarantined. These include post-traumatic stress, confusion and anger.

Sources @CDCgov @HISTORY @ScienceAlert

That concludes my quarantine on quarantine research... here’s hoping we only have ten more days

Good articles
https://www.cdc.gov/quarantine/historyquarantine.html

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.history.com/.amp/news/pandemics-end-plague-cholera-black-death-smallpox

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.sciencealert.com/quarantines-have-been-used-to-try-keep-diseases-at-bay-for-thousands-of-years/amp